One of the angriest Nintendo characters is probably Mr. Resetti from the Animal Crossing series. If you've ever encountered him yourself, you'll know he's the guy that pops up out of the ground and tells you off when you forget to save. You might have even met his brother Don Resetti if you were particularly naughty.

Well, we've got some upsetting news to share today. It looks like Mr. Resetti has lost his job. Yep, during an interview with Mashable at E3 2019, Animal Crossing: New Horizons project lead Aya Kyogoku confirmed Mr. Resetti would be replaced at the Reset Surveillance Center by a new auto-save function.

"Unfortunately because there's no necessity to reset the game or reset button on the Switch, Mr. Resetti had a hard time. He was laid off from his position."

Despite how sad long-time fans are likely to be about Nintendo's decision to let the mole go, Kyogoku believes it's for the best:

"I think this will be a positive thing for the player because in New Horizons you can stop playing in the middle of your game and it'll still save."

Fortunately, she was able to reveal Mr. Resetti is currently looking for new work:

"We also believe that Mr. Resetti is looking for a new job after his layoff. So please look forward to that."

This now has us wondering what's going on with his brother, Don. We guess he's been laid off as well.

Alarmingly, this isn't the first time something like this has happened in the Animal Crossing series. The town mayor Tortimer retired in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and it's believed Frillard – the frilled-necked lizard – passed away.

How do you think Mr. Resetti could be put to use in the upcoming Animal Crossing game for Switch? Tell us below.

When he’s not paying off a loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to report on the latest Nintendo news and admire his library of video games. His favourite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.

I hope this means they'll be letting the player have more control over where new villagers are moving in. I remember using the reset-move strategy to get my new villagers move into the spots I wanted before they made them unable to move on paths in that one update.

So, i wonder how do we get specific villagers on New Horizons. Better Nintendo let us to choose which villager to move in or move out without being forced to get Random villagers. Just like MySims Wii.

He’s annoying but I’d rather deal with him than have an auto save render my town a mess because I didn’t pick everyone else’s weeds for them every-single-day-forever due to having a life and other games.

They should take a leaf out of the Harvest Moon book and let us play at our own pace.

My initial playthrough won’t be a problem as I do commit to daily play during that but I reserve the right to come back to the game months later for a Christmas event or something and not have to deal with cobwebs etc.

And what else? Is Nintendo going to deny this game cloud support just for the sake of some annoying cleaning?

Aw, I love Resetti. This also sucks because now you really can't reset if you've messed up something, which is a bit scary. Resetti was there to penalize you if you do so, but you know, sometimes it's worth an extra three minutes of your life to undo something in AC.

Thank goodness for that. Have had my dealings with him in the past... Never reset on purpose (power cuts, ds running out of power, 3ds went through a phase of random freezing before a Nintendo repair) and can say it's worse than being told off by my wife. Though it's close on how much they both go on, and on, and on... Glad he will be in it still. Looking forward to next year. Side note what a year it's going to be. Especially at E3. Nintendo saved it this year but next year we will have Sony and Microsoft doing their willy waving about next gen and no doubt Nintendo Will have some special stuff hidden away too. Great time to game people!

Well, i'll actually miss this mot..f... mole.I was actually one of his worst enemy because i'm one of these type of guys who enjoyed trigger him that's why i spent much time simple restart the console without saving. Than again it's not that of an big deal for me due the Game still looks great.

Whaaaaaaat? The DS and 3DS didn't have reset buttons! That didn't stop them from using him when you just shut off the power or closed the game! Not really sure I like autosaving... there's been so many times I didn't like something and just wanted to reset.

I want to see Mr. Resetti starring in his own franchise: a Nintendofied, fourth-wall-breaking version of the movie Falling Down where he has to fix everything that is wrong with modern video games. Your move, Nintendo.

"We also believe that Mr. Resetti is looking for a new job after his layoff. So please look forward to that."

My apologies for awaking you at this unseemly time of the night, Mr. uh-Villager. I'm here on the behalf of a certain mutual business acquaintance of ours. Mr. Nook is very disappointed in you. Mr. Nook is a very generous tanuki. He loans folks like yous a considerable amount of bells, and all he asks in return is to be paid back in a timely fashion. So Mr. Nook has asked ol' Risetti here to pay a friendly little visit to this fine tent yous have placed here and take a look at where you may have eh-accidentally misplaced his bells. Ya'know. Help ya' find 'em. That's a very nice Antique Radio you've got on that there Forest Coffee Table. So what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna take this here shovel, and I'm gonna help you search every corner of your tent here for the bells you seem to have inconveniently misplaced here, and Mr. Nook would very much like to have returned to him, perhaps you might remember where they might be. Perhaps my associates here can help jog your memory while I look. These guys here...they're very good partners. They're brothers, really, ain't that right boys? Mr. Mario and Mr. Luigi here are going to help you remember......

Not a fan of auto saving in general. I don't mind it if it's a automatic save i can chose next to manual saving. Also i want to keep the option to set the clock to advance in time, can't be asked to play the first few days sporadically.

I always thought Resetti was hilarious when I was a kid, but he scared my little sister. I understand why they took out the sections from Wild World where you had to type in phrases with perfect punctuation before you could play the game. Some kids play Animal Crossing without really reading very well, so that might actually soft lock the game.

But autosave is a nice addition, and Animal Crossing regularly keeps characters, but puts them in different roles. Although I do miss Lyle as obnoxious insurance salesman who would chase you around every Saturday.